Anticonvulsant effect of felbamate in the pentylenetetrazole kindling model of epilepsy in the rat

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology

Volumn 354, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 173-178

  Giorgi, O ^a   Carboni, G ^a   Frau, V ^a   Orlandi, M ^a   Valentini, V ^a   Feldman, A ^b   Corda, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

convulsions; dizocilpine; felbamate; GABA(A) receptors; isoniazid; kindling; NMDA receptors; pentylenetetrazol (PTZ); picrotoxin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; FELBAMATE; ISONIAZID; PENTETRAZOLE; PICROTOXIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; EPILEPSY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KINDLING; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEIZURE; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0029972101     PISSN: 00281298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00178717     Document Type: Article

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